{"id":30791,"date":"2018-05-08T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/?p=30791"},"modified":"2018-05-08T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:42:34","slug":"debunking-common-misconceptions-sales-personality-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/2018\/debunking-common-misconceptions-sales-personality-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking Common Misconceptions About Sales Personality Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sales personality tests first became popular in the 1980s when enterprises began to see how challenging it was to decipher an employee\u2019s true soft skills without first putting them in a job. This however lead to a great deal of hiring risk and loss of company resources, so recruiters and managers began to search for a better way. Industrial psychologists then developed a test designed to assess traits integral to sales that provided 90% accuracy just by asking job applicants to answer a few short personality-based questions. But despite this success rate, and over thirty years worth of research, many companies are still skeptical.<\/p>\n

How Can Such a Short Test Be Useful?<\/h3>\n

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\n21 job-interview questions that are designed to trick you<\/em><\/p>\n

Some employers worry that a 10-minute personality test<\/a> is not detailed enough and may cost them talent, so they take the process into their own hands instead. What they don\u2019t realize is that even a short test can measure the most useful and comprehensive information. While longer tests typically measure sales skills, it\u2019s important to remember that many skills can be taught on the job; a person\u2019s natural sense of empathy, sociability, or assertiveness can\u2019t always be improved.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m An Experienced Interviewer, I Don\u2019t Need It<\/h3>\n

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Those who\u2019ve been in the hiring business for a long time may believe they have the power to detect a sales personality in an interview setting, but interviewees have the ability to confuse a hiring committee, especially if they want the job badly enough. The truth is that many recruiters and hiring managers don\u2019t know how to use sales personality tests<\/a> at all, and so their interviewees easily play up the sales personality<\/a> they think the manager or committee wants to see, but upon hire, behave very differently. Furthermore, without a detailed analysis of the position in question, it\u2019s very difficult for managers to know what personality traits it calls for. Many end up hiring someone they think exemplifies a competent salesperson overall, but someone in a prospecting position has a very different personality map from someone closing deals, even though they both could be strong salespeople when placed in the right role.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t Applicants Cheat?<\/h3>\n

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If applicants can pull the wool over a prospective employer\u2019s eyes in an interview, many don\u2019t trust them not to leverage their answers on a test. However, because sales personality tests such as those available through providers like SalesTestOnline know applicants will try to respond \u201ccorrectly\u201d to each question, they take this into account when designing the questions. Rather than asking questions related to sales, their sales questions are masked, and so applicants have no choice but to respond authentically.<\/p>\n

There are sales managers out there who believe that because their hiring strategies are more wide-ranging, their chances of finding employees for the long-term are higher. Yet, the sales industry still experiences one of the highest turnover rates around. As a trial, choose to incorporate a sales personality test when next you hire, and see whether it helps cut through any interviewees\u2019 facades or whether it gives clearer insight into a candidate\u2019s sales personality. Companies don\u2019t need to completely eradicate trusted hiring techniques, rather, they should take advantage of tools available to them that make the process a little more transparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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